Arcadia Motion Pictures

Arcadia Motion Pictures is an independent film and television production company based in Barcelona, Spain. Founded in 2004 by writer, director and producer Ibon Cormenzana, it develops auteur cinema with international festival and commercial potential. Its work spans live-action features, feature-length animation and television drama, alongside international co-productions and film financing.

The company combines creative development and physical production with the structuring of private investment for audiovisual projects. This combination supports a production slate that ranges from crime thrillers and westerns to intimate dramas, animation and series for streaming platforms. International co-production is another part of its work, bringing together creative and financial partners for individual productions.

Feature films and recognition

Arcadia produced Enrique Urbizu’s No habrá paz para los malvados (No Rest for the Wicked, 2011), which received six Goya Awards, including Best Film, and Mateo Gil’s western Blackthorn (2011), which won four. Pablo Berger’s black-and-white silent film Blancanieves (Snow White, 2012) received ten Goya Awards, including Best Film, and was selected as Spain’s official Academy Awards entry.

Its later productions include Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Madre (2019), whose lead performance received the Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti Best Actress award, and As Bestas (The Beasts, 2022), which premiered at Cannes and won nine Goya Awards, including Best Film.

Pablo Berger’s animated feature Robot Dreams (2023) extended the company’s work into feature animation. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature and won two Goya Awards, the European Film Award and Annecy’s Contrechamp Award.

Television and continuing production

Arcadia’s television work includes the Netflix true-crime drama El cuerpo en llamas (Burning Body, 2023) and Ravalejar / Ravalear: Not for Sale (2024) for HBO Max. Its feature slate also includes Celia Rico’s Viaje al cuarto de una madre and Los pequeños amores, Marcel Barrena’s Mediterráneo, and Ibon Cormenzana’s El bus de la vida.